Thanksgiving in Benin

For Thanksgiving proper, I stayed in Fo-Boure, taught 2 classes of English, had a nice lunch of igname pillet... in short, it was an ordinary day in the bush - though I admit to cheating and towards the end of the day I broke out my Christmas playlist on my ipod and thus announced the beginning of the Christmas season a few hours early with Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir... not too shabby, if you ask me. The real celebration was to be that Saturday, when our TEFL group started to arrive in Parakou for our weeklong workshop....I don't feel like continuing this thread today....later

Na Fo-Boure Kin - well, sort of

translation: I love Fo-Boure.

This will be a collection of pictures of the wonderous world of Fo-Boure, when I get arround to it.....

Bird Flu.... the end is near

I suppose the time has come for me to change my way of life here - Bird Flu has come to Benin... No more butchering birds, no more handling raw eggs (though I would have to find them first - no eggs in Fo-Boure) no more more poking sick birds, and finally, no more playing more playing with bird feces - life will be hard. Yup, bird flu has been discovered in birds in Cotonou and near Porto-Novo, though it has not been found in any humans. Though, if it were to be found in humans, we would all be immediately pulled out of the country and ordered to take the drugs that we already have as a precaution (although, come to think of it, I definitely don't have mine anymore, so good thing I'm living at the med-unit right now.) Anyways, I am not particularly concerned about all this, especially as I am leaving the country in 4 days... and even if I wasn't, I still wouldn't be that concerned...